Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence Nick Bostrom Oxford University Philosophy Faculty 10 Merton Street Oxford OX1 4JJ United Kingdom Homepage: https://nickbostrom.com [This is a slightly revised version of a paper published in Cognitive, Emotive and Ethical Aspects of Decision Making…

LEGO! Who didn’t play with LEGO in his/her childhood? The Danish toy company just overtook Mattel as the number one toy maker in the world. I recently came across some classical paintings remodeled with LEGO bricks on the internet [ citation needed ]. And with bricks I mean small 1x1 plates giving a…

For several years now, the trend among geeks has been to abandon the RSS format. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a way to queue up and serve content from the internet. The MacSparky RSS, for example, gives RSS applications a list of all the articles I post here since you last checked int. It…

André Staltz The Web began dying in 2014, here's how 30 Oct 2017 Before the year 2014, there were many people using Google, Facebook, and Amazon. Today, there are still many people using services from those three tech giants (respectively, GOOG, FB, AMZN). Not much has changed, and quite literally…

Being involved in open source software is rewarding, yeah? You start off contributing to your favorite project, and it feels so heartwarming when that project’s maintainers recognize your effort. Then a few years later you somehow end up responsible for that project, and maybe some satellite…